μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reincarnation in plant (tree) growing from grave. (Cf. E632, D1610.2.)

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation in object. · view the constellation · filed as E631

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "arbres", "cadavre", "tombeau"
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 7, 311 No 41
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 92 No. 780B*
  • Greek Fox 198 (Adonis), 201 (Pyramus and Thisbe)
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 6
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 2 Nos. 12, 13
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesian Dixon 238, De Vries Volksverhalen I 300
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 50f.
  • Papua Ker 131
  • N. Am. Indian (Zuñi) Cushing 183, (Kato): Goddard UCal V 219 n. 1
  • Africa (Kaffir) Theal 147, (Ekoi): Talbot 133.
  • general Type 510
  • general BP I 187
  • general *Cox 477 n. 7
  • general *Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "blod" IV 49a, "juletræ" II 57a
  • general Saintyves Contes de Perrault (Paris, 1923) 36ff., 141ff. English: *Child V 481. s. v. "grave", V 491 s. v. "plants"
  • general Amazon: Alexander Lat. Am. 294
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation in object.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person Plant from blood of slain person Speaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated persons Tree from innocent man's blood Tree from sinner's grave Flower from grave Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.) Herbs grow from grave of healer Dead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitive Reincarnation as plant Reincarnation in tree from grave
Filed beside it
Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime Reincarnation as dish. Bones made into dish. These speak. (Cf. E632.) Reincarnation as fountain Reincarnation as water. (Cf. D283.) Reincarnation as ball (of gold and iron) Reincarnation as whirlwind Reincarnation as stone Reincarnation as smoke Reincarnation as rainbow Reincarnation as mineral Reincarnation as meteor Reincarnation: man-object-man. In most of the versions of E632 (Reincarnation as musical instrument) the hero (heroine) finally comes back to life in his usual form Reincarnation to object – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Speaking tree. (Cf. D950, D1317.20.) Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime
Carried in tale types

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